Late Night, Again

It's 2:15 a.m. and I haven't been able to fall asleep yet tonight. Joe just came up (in the bonus room) and told me he forgot to put an Ambien in my pills for tonight. I'd say "Aarrgg"but it is so unlady-like so I am just biting my knuckles instead. My program on KSRR is this morning at 9:00 so I can't take a pill now or I won't be able to drive when it's time to go to the station.

I prayed that I would be calm and collected for the program. Under the circumstances I'll be lucky to be able to keep from falling asleep so calm won't even be an issue. It took me about three hours to prepare for this half hour show. I hope it goes well.

I mentioned going shopping for new clothes in my last entry. I did and found two beautiful blouses and two really nice long winter coats, one dressy and one casual. It's a good thing because when I tried on the short coat I got from Costco in front of a mirror it looked terrible. It's way too small. I may be able to wear it next winter but not this one.

I guess I can say, now, that Emilee's baby's name is Isobella. I think her middle name is Jennifer but I'm not sure about that. She has a whole head full of black hair and weighed in at right around 8 lbs. Savanna is only now reaching 8 lbs. and she is two months old. They are both "as cute as a bug's ear" as my Dad used to say. It'll be fun to have three little toddlers playing together once all three babies are around a year old. We found out that Michelle's baby is definitely and girl. She is due in December.

We celebrated Dannan and Mieka's birthdays today and everyone was there except Michael and Janelle who is in the hospital having a cancerous tumor removed from her colon. I wish it had occurred to me that I could have taken their girls one of the days Janelle was laid up. I am going to have to get used to thinking of ways I can serve my family now that the fibromyalgia is in remission.

Well, I think I'll go back to bed and see if I can get a couple of hours of sleep before I have to get up.

Cheers,

Mither

Small Miracles

Still fighting sleepiness in the mornings, but to my complete surprise, Joe said I got up last night (after taking my ambien and going to bed) and talked to Michelle and Fleicia (incoherently they said - they just laughed off my crazy speech) until very late. He said I had been doing this several nights, not just last night. I have no memory of it at all. That's what ambien will do to you. I wish I could get off of it.

NO WONDER I've had such a HARD time staying awake during the day. I found myself nodding off in my ERC (Employment Resources Center - my Church service mission) Conference yesterday and then jerking awake over and over. How embarrassing!

I've asked Joe to gently suggest to me that I might want to go back to bed because I have to get up at 5:00 in the morning. Apparently, I get feisty and unreasonable when I am in that state. I'm hoping that my alter ego will listen to him and go back to bed. I still plan on getting up at 5:00 a.m.

The small miracle is that even though I got up so early (and then went back to sleep on the couch at 6:30 until 7:30 when I was wakened by a phone call) I still got my art room cleaned up so that I can at least turn around. The boxes of stuff that got put in there "temporarily" are finally gone! Hallelujah!

Now I have no excuse not to paint. Hope there is another small (BIG) miracle that will cause me to actually do it, now.